Name details

Star Promontory

Star Promontory (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Star Promontory  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 138181

Feature type: Promontory (8)

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

"Named after its distinctive shape, two points of an imaginary star with one point trending north north west and the other west. Visited by ANARE 1992-93 in a traverse from Mather Peninsula to Sapozhok Island and Cape Rybachiy. This promontory is important geologically as it preserves a shear zone that cuts the older gneisses."

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 52' 29.8" S
-68.87495°
Accurate to 0m
Longitude:
77° 56' 17.7" E
77.93826°
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Altitude:
0 m
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Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown The coordinates for this place name were derived from Map id 0 - This map does not exist in the SCAR Map Catalogue. in the SCAR Map Catalogue.
Source Name:
Rauer Group 50K GIS Topographic Dataset
Source Identifier:
Raur50k
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
7-Jun-2016

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